Why Project Green Schools?

Project Green Schools is entirely dedicated to promoting environmental literacy and stewardship in children in grades 2-12. David Orr, the Paul Sears Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies and Politics at Oberlin College and a world-renown environmental educator says that “just as reading becomes second nature to those who are literate, interpreting and acting for the environment ideally would become second nature to the environmentally literate citizen.”

This is our mission at Project Green Schools – to develop environmentally literate students and schools through our innovative programs such as National Green Schools Society.

Students who take part in our programs are environmental literate in these areas:

How daily choices in the products and services we consume impact the environment.